Tech Tip of the Week: Place a Fully Functional Recycle Bin on your Windows 7 Taskbar

DId this last week. Very cool and looks good.

"Non-Apple software must use other metaphors for file deletion, such as Recycle Bin, Smart Eraser, or Shredder"

Not entirely correct, AmigaOS has a trashcan.

I love this. I added the recycle bin to my taskbar and only have one question; when I right-click on the recycle bin in my taskbar, I get many more item (i.e. cut, copy, delete, etc.) how did you get rid of those "extra" items? Is there a way I can get the right-click menu to look like the one in the screenshot?

thanks

Although this fix IS fully functional, making the recycle bin icon large to match the other icons add makes your taskbar taller and it looks bad. It also won't let you position the recycle bin icon anywhere in between your other icons.

I have a problem with this.
I added a new toolbar. All my icons are in this toolbar now but when I start my computer the toolbar/icons are gone.
I have to make a new toolbar with the same folder url to get it back, all the icons I've put in it before are still there.
I'm probably missing some setting to keep the toolbar from loading at windows startup but I can't think what I'm missing.

Awesome writeup! I love the look of a clean desktop and now I dont have any icons on the desktop!

Hey Matthew! Thanks for the tutorial,it helped me a lot with cleaning my desktop
But I have a question. Would you please tell me the name or a download link for the wallpaper you used in the tutorial? I really like it,and yeah.Me wants wallpaper xD

Thanks for the wall,also,one more question.
The them you use,is it a default color in Win 7 or is it custom?
I know I'm being a bit requestive ( to say so ) but,I'm looking for ideas for my desktop,so yeah.

May I see it?

Sorry...I just saw the screenshot,it wasn't displayed on the comment box.
Anyway,thanks a bunch.

The odd thing is that just yesterday I was at a forum where people were posting their desktops and I told people how to do it, linking to your instructions. When I first did this I am pretty sure it was not your instructions that I followed, but thanks anyway for spreading the word. It SHOULD be as easy as just dragging and dropping it onto the task bar, but that would be too convenient.

Also odd is somehow I lost my recycle bin in the task bar today and I did use your instructions to put it back. I am guessing I deleted it when I was not paying attention and was trying to empty it.

I did everything as it says but the problem I get is that when I right-click on the Recycle Bin icon in the taskbar I don't get the same context menu you that you get.
I get it as if it was a any other shortcut, it does include the Empty Recycle Bin and open but it's not as minimal as yours with just a few items in it.

A problem I get from this is my bad habit of selecting Delete instead and no the icon is gone and I have to put the Recycle Bin back on the desktop and re-create the short cut again. Which is why I ended up going into the Properties->Security tab and removing my ability to do anything but Write, so now when I try to delete it I get an error that stops me.
I would much rather prefer to have the same limited selection that yours has. Is there a step I'm missing or something you left out that could help with this?